Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.

Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.